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Ann Raimes, Hunter College, City University of New York
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If you are an English language learner, practice your English skills by taking these ESL quizzes and navigating these ESL web links.
Ann Raimes has taught and written for ESL and multilingual students for more than twenty-five years. She served as Chair of the CUNY ESL Task Force in 1993- 94, a group of twenty faculty members charged with making recommendations about ESL instruction across the CUNY system, which has 250,000 students. She has spoken at conferences around the world and has published numerous articles on ESL teaching, including topics such as writing theory and practice, trends in the field, composing processes, grammar, teaching methodology, the TOEFL Test of Written English, and evaluation of research. The ESL/Multilingual links and resources available in this ESL Center are among the Web sites she has found most helpful and useful.
- Language Guide to Transfer Errors
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- ACE Practice Tests
ACE Practice Test 1: Transfer Errors
ACE Practice Test 2: Nouns and Articles
ACE Practice Test 3: Verbs and Verbals
ACE Practice Test 4: Sentence Structure
ACE Practice Test 5: Prepositions in Idiomatic Expressions
ACE Practice Test 6: Frequently Asked ESL Editing Questions - ESL Web Links
Dave's
ESL Café
This site is well known and frequently visited by ESL, EFL, and
multilingual students and teachers around the world. Stop by for Cafe
news, bookstore browsing, chat, discussion, frequently asked
questions, a graffiti wall, an idiom page, a photo gallery, a quiz
center, a web guide, and much more.
ESL at
Houghton Mifflin
Online activities, textbooks, and dictionaries provide students
with a wide array of innovative resources. XPRESLINK is an Internet
activity designed to help students develop language skills from
authentic web sites. Sites organized by topics--with questions at
beginner, intermediate, and advanced language levels--are provided to
stimulate student discussion and writing.
ESL on the
Net
Here's a wealth of connections to ESL Links and Guides, ESL Places
to Visit, Computer-Assisted language Learning Sites. Online
Publishing and Journal, Software, MUDS and MOOS, Usenet Newsgroups,
Discussion Lists, and a bibliography of Internet-related articles of
particular interest to ESL students and instructors.
Lingua MOO
A MOO is a MUD (Multi-User Domain) Object
Oriented environment, or virtual educational community, where
you can not only communicate in actual time but also add to a virtual
world by building new rooms and other objects. Lingua MOO, at
the University of Texas at Dallas, is a learning environment
for students and a broader community for research and collaboration.
Lingua MOO is a text-based virtual reality where you can create your
own spaces and interact with people from around the world in
synchronous time. Go to the Courtyard where you can easily get to all
the various resource centers in the MOO. These include "A Help
Kiosk," "Lingua House," "The Comoonity," and a library. When you
visit Lingua MOO you must connect as a guest. You are bound to have a
great experience.
SchMOOze
University
SchMOOze University has a diverse student population where people
studying English as a second or foreign language can practice English
with other learners. Visit this MOO for opportunities for one-on-one
conversations, group conversations, and access to language games, an
online dictionary, and more. SchMOOze University welcomes ESL and EFL
students and everyone else who is interested in cross-cultural
communication. You'll find abundant MOO reference documents and
articles as well as links to other ESL/EFL related pages.
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